Button-fastening machine



(No Model.)

J. H. VINTON.

BUTTON FASTENING MACHINE.

No. 368,631. Patented Aug. 23, 1887.

ilnrTnn STATES JOHN H. VINTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE JPENIN- PATENT Orrrcs.

SULAR NOVELTY COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BUTTON=FASTENING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,631, dated August 23, 18847;

Application filed June 15, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. VINTON, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button-Fastening Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve button setting machines of the class represented in United States Patent"; No. 312,987,

' feeding-devices to govern the passage of the staples and buttons to the carrier being connected with the staple-chute and controlled automatically by the rising and falling head.

The drawing shows in side elevation a button-setting machine embodying this invention, a portion thereof being broken away to more clearly show the operating parts.

The main frame-work consists of a post, a, an arm, I), supporting an anvil, Z), and an arm, 11'. A head, 0, fixed to the top of a shank, 0, moving within the post a, and connected to any suitable treadle, (not shown,) carries a driver, of", rigidly connected therewith, and a staple-carrier slide 0 The staple-carrier slide 0 is connected to a rod, 0, moving within an overhanging arm, 0 and encircled by a spiral spring, 0, which normally tends to keep the staple-carrier slide in elevated position. The staple carrier or block 6, located'at the lower end of the staplecarrier slide, is slotted and recessed to receive a staple having a button loosely connected therewith, substantially as in the patent referred to, the said staple-carrier being so 10- cated as to permit the driver to enter and force Serial No. 205,235. (No model.)

therefrom a staple when the head 0 is de pressed, the staple carrier slide yielding against the spring 0 The staple-chutef consists of a raceway substantially rectangular in cross section, and slotted to receive a staple having a button loosely connected therewith, said staple-chute being bent inwardly, as atf, at its lower end and terminating contiguous to the staple-carrier 0, so that the endmost staple within the staple-chute may drop directly into the staplecarrier. The staple-chute is secured to the front end of the arm I) by suitable screws, or otherwise, to thus remain stationary.

Suitable feed-dogs, n a, pivoted to projections upon the rear side of'the staple chute or guide and having their engaging ends turned toward each other, are provided to allow the staples within the staple-chute to pass out one at a time. The feed-dogs n n are operated by two pins, 2 3, attached to the moving head 0, so that as the said head rises and falls first one and then the other feed-dog is operated to allow one staple to pass as the head rises and falls, the two pins striking the cam-shaped surfaces of the feed-dogs and turning them on their pivots.

The staples having buttonsloosely connected therewith are placed within the staplechute, one being allowed to pass the feeddogs and enter the staple-carrier e. The treadle is then operated and the staplecarrier descends,bearing upon the material placed upon the anvil b, it then yielding, permitting the driver to force the staple from the staplecarrier. During such operation the pin 2 turns the feeddog it and allows the next staple to fall upon the feed-dog a. As the head a rises, the dog a is released and the pin 3, striking the dog a, allows that staple resting upon it to drop, following the inclined portion fof the staple-chute and entering the staple-carrier 0. Thus it will be seen that at each operation of the machine one staple is allowed to pass the feed dogs and enter, by means of the inwardly-bent staple chute, in suitable position to be struck by the descending driver.

It is obvious that the feed-dogs may be variously positioned and operated in different ways yet accomplishing the results herein r00 stated, so I do not desire to limit my invention to the specific construction and location shown.

It will be seen that the staple-carrier lying contiguous to the termination of the bent staple chute forms, when taken collectively, a single staple guide or chute, so shaped as to convey the staples from the raceway to a position directly beneath and so as to be struck by the driver.

I do not herein broadly claim a button-setting machine containing a carrier or chute slotted to receive one or morestaples having buttons attached thereto, and having an inward bend or offset at its lower end to receive the staple and attached button, combined with a driver to free the lowermost staple from said inward bend or offset, as the same is not of my invention.

I claim In a button-setting machine, a chute or guide slotted to receive staples and attached buttons, and bent inwardly at its lower end to convey the staples to a position directly beneath and so as to be struck by the driver to set the button, combined with feed-dogs, and means, substantially as described, to operate them to permit one staple and its attached button to pass and be conveyed by the bent chute or guide beneath the driver at each operation of the machine, substantially as set forth.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. VINTON.

Witnesses:

BERNICE J. N oYEs, F. CUTTER. 

